Southeast Asia
Malaysia
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Malaysia's #5 import source (world lens). Malaysia is the EU's #34 goods supplier.
Malaysia on the world stage
Total imports
$299.5bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$329.5bn
207 partners
#1 import source
China
21.6%
#1 export dest.
Singapore
15.3%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Malaysia and the EU
EU imports from
€30.4bn
1.2% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€18.6bn
0.7% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #34 supplier
EU trade balance
import-tilted
coverage 0.61
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
60
EUR/MWh
Consumer
84
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
610
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
19%
of generation
Wholesale 45 EUR/MWh · regulated market
Power market
● Take-or-pay / single-buyer lock-inMarket model
Single buyer (cracking open via CRESS)
Direct PPA
Allowed
grid access: limited
Reserve margin
32%
Regulator
Independent
Energy Commission / Suruhanjaya Tenaga (ST)
A TNB single-buyer monopsony has kept power cheap and reliable but closed to competition; the binding constraint on cheap clean corporate power is grid access, only now cracking open through the CRESS third-party-access…
Tracked infrastructure
43 gas plants
17.4 GW · 2 building
25 coal plants
13.3 GW
32 solar farms
1.8 GW · 5 building
13 hydro plants
6.0 GW · 2 building
4 steel plants
7,400 ktpa · 1 building
1 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
20
1 production-backed
Acid-drainage prone
2
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Aluminium, Gold, Other (poly)-metallic
Mine-water verifiability
Partial
DOE river and marine monitoring + Environmental Quality…
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Monitored ports (13)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
30.5
→ 40.1 by 2050
Fertility
1.54
below replacement
Working-age
70.5%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
11
→ 25.1 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 35.6M · peaks 2072
By 2050: +24% (44.3M)